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Obama airing ads on veterans, seniors

AP - Politics - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is airing two new ads, one focusing on his work with veterans returning home from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and another aimed at seniors dependent on Medicare....

Welfare 'letting addicts down'

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
The state should do more to help addicts and make them employable, Iain Duncan Smith will say, with removing benefits a "hypothetical" option.
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Donna Summer track joins registry

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
The Donna Summer classic I Feel Love is one of 25 songs and other sounds to be inducted into the US National Recording Registry.
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Lifelong order for serial rapist

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
A serial rapist is given a lifelong restriction order for attacking women across Scotland over a 15-year period.
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Murphy announces Irish retirement

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
Geordan Murphy quits international rugby after failing to make the Ireland squad for the tour to New Zealand.
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Hospital 'failed' overdose babies

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
There were "failings" in the care of premature twins who died after being given an overdose of morphine, a coroner rules.
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The end of the Asbo era

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
Ministers are scrapping the anti-social behaviour order, but its acronym will take longer to shift from common parlance.
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BAE signs £1.9bn Saudi jet deal

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
British defence giant BAE signs a £1.9bn ($3bn) deal with Saudi Arabia to supply Hawk trainer jets, saving over 200 UK jobs.
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Senator: Prostitution scandal wider than believed

AP - U.S. News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last month and engaged in reckless, "morally repugnant" behavior, Sen. Susan Collins says....
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'Killer bride' seized at banquet

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
Police in the Russian region of Udmurtia arrest a woman at her wedding reception on suspicion of kicking a man to death the day before.
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Merkel challenged over EU growth

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
EU leaders are continuing talks in Brussels with Germany resisting pressure to launch eurobonds as a way to ease the debt crisis and revive growth.
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Indian films make mark in Cannes

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
The director of one of several Indian films at the Cannes film festival says he hopes to change the country's reputation as "a joke" at the event.
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Afghan aid workers are kidnapped

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
Two foreign doctors and three Afghan colleagues are kidnapped by criminals in the country's north-eastern province of Badakhshan, officials say.
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Big fall in April UK retail sales

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
UK retail sales volumes fell sharply in April largely because of a record fall in petrol sales, according to official figures.
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Chimpanzees behave 'like people'

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
Chimps and orangutans really do have "personalities like people", new research says
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Fiat and Mazda in car alliance

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
Carmakers Fiat and Mazda announce they have formed an alliance to develop two-seater sports cars.
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Leveson-style probes 'too long'

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
The former Lord Chief Justice has said limits could be put on the cost and length of public inquiries.
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Morgan explained hacking - Paxman

BBC - News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
Ex-tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan explained how to access mobile phone voicemail messages, Jeremy Paxman tells the Leveson Inquiry.
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Bank of England 'finely balanced' over stimulus

AP - World News - Sun, 2026-05-03 02:32
LONDON (AP) -- The minutes to the last policy meeting at the Bank of England show that only one of the nine members of the rate-setting committee voted for more economic stimulus....

Figures don't lie: Democrats do

It's been breaking news all over: "Federal spending under Obama at historic lows ... It's clear that Obama has been the most fiscally moderate president we've had in 60 years." There's even a chart!
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